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Mapping in the Marbella Cafė. The venue worked well, with plenty of space to edit. We had a range of people, young and old, from inexperienced to veteran. There was plenty of tea and coffee to go around, and soup provided for lunch.

Everyone had a go some mapping, some getting quite wet in the process. The results:

People went out as far as Eccles, Oldham, Prestwich, Sale and Stockport:

What

What - An OpenStreetMap Mapping Weekend in Manchester, UK sponsored by Cloudmade.

Aim - To map as many highways, cycleways and footpaths as possible to the East and North of Manchester.

Up to the A576 and A6010, possibly further out towards the M60?--Sward 08:56, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Who - Open to all, experienced OSM'ers and new participants alike.

How - Bring along some transport (feet, bike, horse, car, bus etc) and if you have one a GPS receiver, and also if you have one a digital camera or Dictaphone. There will be a number of GPS receivers available to loan if you need one though.

More? - See below for more details plus the Q&A sheet. For details on the day call blackadder (Andy Robinson) on 0777 553 7872

When

Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October 2008

Where

Our base will be near the city centre, a short walk from Piccadilly Station:

Programme of Events

Saturday 27th - Meet at 10:00am (from 9:00am for setting up) for refreshments (tea & cakes provided), training and dividing up the cake. Return at lunchtime (Soup and roll provided) or stay out all day, up to you. From 4pm till 5:30pm (tea & cakes provided) wrap up back at venue before heading out to the pub.

Saturday evening - out for a few drinks before heading off for food.

Sunday 28th - Meet at 10:00am for refreshments (tea & cakes provided), review of Saturday and further dividing up the cake. Return at lunchtime (Soup and roll provided) or stay out all day, up to you. From 4pm till 5:30pm (tea & cakes provided) wrap up back at venue before heading home.

Who's going to be participating?

Please add your name if you plan to come along just so we get an idea of numbers and experience.

Simon Ward may be able to offer spare bed and floor to anyone (preferrably known) who can put up with the dirty squalor.

Where are people staying?

Mapping - The Cake

Our target area is North and East of the venue but you can actually map where you like. Also see notes about the "virtual mapping party" for those who want to help by tracing Yahoo! imagery in defined locations.

Also some other places in need of some mapping love (mini cakes to follow for some):

Ancoats

Ardwick

Beswick

Cheetham Hill

Gorton

Longsight

Lower Broughton

Miles Platting

Salford

Cycle routes:

NCN 6 (city centre towards Bury)

NCN 60 (Ashton Canal to Heaton Park)

Yahoo Tracing, the Virtual Mapping Party

We will have a number of new attendees at this event, including some families, who may find it easier to just name streets and collect POI information. You can help this process, especially if you can spare an hour or two and cannot make the party, by tracing over the Yahoo! imagery for Manchester before the mapping party weekend. Anywhere within the "cake" or elsewhere would be cool, although sticking closer to the centre will help folks on foot get to the areas.

If you are tracing please add your name below together with the cake segment number or other description of the area you have traced.

Ivansanchez has already done 7 and 8; will try to do 32. How am I supposed to tell brownish roads apart from brownish buildings, anyway?

Actually I did it via GPS survey before knowing anything about this mapping party ;) Will finish it off via GPS survey this w/e...

RichardB 21, and was going to do section 14, but there wasn't much there anyway - mostly parkland - and a metrolink depot.

EdLoach came back to see if anything was left to do, and while I don't think all sections are listed above, they all now seem to have roads on that have been added recently. So will try and find some of the other places, starting with Gorton, although it seems the roads up to the edge of the Yahoo imagery in that area are also done.

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Method to the Mapness

Indicate here preferred modes of transport, and when the cake is baked any slices you would like to do.